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Friday, May 1, 2020

Sandboxie

Sandboxie is an old utility that originally attempted to "sandbox" Internet Explorer within Windows. The application now has been released as open-source.

https://www.sandboxie.com/

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/09/sandboxie-is-now-an-open-source-tool/

Photopea

Photopea is an online photo editor.

https://www.photopea.com/

Wazuh is an open source security monitoring solution for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and compliance. Agents are available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

https://wazuh.com/

XODO

XODO is an online PDF editor.

https://www.xodo.com/

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Registry hack to disable Bing from Windows Search

Below is a Registry file that contains two keys to disable the Bing component from Windows Search with Windows 10.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search]
"CortanaConsent"=dword:00000000
"BingSearchEnabled"=dword:00000000

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-search-is-broken-and-shows-blank-results-how-to-fix/

RedRabbit

RedRabbit is a PowerShell script for penetration testers. It includes options such as a network scanner and DNS resolver.

https://github.com/securethelogs/RedRabbit

Betwixt

Betwixt is a local proxy to analyze web traffic outside the browser using familiar Chrome DevTools interface. Versions are available for MacOS, Linux, and Windows.

https://github.com/kdzwinel/betwixt

Infection Monkey

Infection Monkey is a penetration testing tool. It’s loaded with lots of advanced exploits as well as the ability to check for common security mistakes like weak passwords. It’s available for Windows, Linux, OpenStack, vSphere, Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform networks.

https://www.guardicore.com/infectionmonkey/